SOAN 2120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: University Of Western Ontario, Recode, Railways Act 1921

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 2120
• Professor: D Walters

Document Summary

Time consuming (create questions, sampling design, interview, coding the data, dealing with errors) Much easier than previous method (less of a headache) Most of the work is done for you. Availability of questions (when you"re using someone else"s data their data is collected for their interest . Is one in uog to get help for how to access your data (also the link) Health, crime, demography, violence against women, economics etc. University of toronto, university of waterloo, mcmaster, uwo, guelph. In spss: data weight cases weight cases by select the weight variable. How to recode: in spss: transform recode into different variable . Then select input variable (variable you will be recoding) Give a short name (less than 10 characters to the name of the variable that you are creating). You can also assign a label to this variable as well. Find the old values in the variable view. Range 1 through 2, new value 1 (married/cl) into one category.